Stories from Delays

Heavy fog affected 41 domestic flights at Auckland Airport this morning. Auckland Airport put fog restrictions in place at 4.55am and they were lifted at 8.26am. A total of 22 domestic flights were been cancelled and 19 were delayed. International flights were not affected by the fog. Visibility in the...

On the eve of the latest strike by Ryanair pilots employed in Ireland, tens of thousands more travellers face finding their flights cancelled by industrial action on Friday 10 August – one of the busiest days of the summer. The airline is telling passengers: “Ryanair has received notice of strikes on Friday...

Flights were delayed by up to an hour after a check-in system failure at Virgin Australia’s domestic terminal at Perth Airport this morning. Three flights departing for Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane were delayed by the technical issue, which only affected Perth domestic flights.

A Ryanair flight was forced to divert to Paris over allegations up to 20 holidaymakers were involved in a drink-fuelled disturbance. Three passengers were removed from the Dublin to Ibiza flight by police after it landed at Paris Beauvais on Saturday morning. The captain of the return flight from the...

Passengers say they have had to queue for up to two hours to pass security checks at Manchester Airport. There were reports of long delays at terminals one and three on Monday morning. Holidaymakers who paid extra cash for fast track passes say they were left queuing for an hour...

Hindered by strikes and outdated equipment, French air traffic control is responsible for a third of aviation delays in Europe, Le Parisien said Monday, citing a senate finance committee report. Between 2004 and 2016, French air traffic controllers were on strike 254 days, while second-placed Greece only had 46 days...

INDSOR LOCKS, Conn. (AP) — An emergency slide was accidentally deployed from a plane at a Connecticut airport, causing the flight to be delayed for several hours. Delta officials at Bradley International Airport tell WVIT-TV the chute was deployed before passengers boarded a flight to Detroit on Thursday. No one...

Passengers were stranded at Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina after hundreds of American Airlines flights were canceled because of a technical glitch. “PSA Airlines, an American Airlines regional carrier, experienced a technical issue that caused them to cancel their flights for the remainder of the evening. Our team...